You don’t wanna
trade him in
for a new model,
necessarily,
but you feel like
you need to
straighten him out.

What are your options?

Well, one that might have
been used by your great-
grandmother might just
surprise you.

An article in the:New York Evening World
from July 08, 1916 leads
off with this leadline:

” One of them’s a cop, but wifey tans him with a bread board just the same, and another gets licked with a lemon squeezer when he misbehaves. “

It goes on to say:

“The controversy was started by an innocent little document from Mrs. McC of Brooklyn,who declared frankly that grown persons, are better for the occasional whipping, adding that her own husband had been changed from a drinker and a smoker into a model man with a good job, money saved and a fine home, by the judicious application of these wifely principles : Spare the rod and spoil the husband was this matron’s recipe for domestic happiness. “

In turn, the husbands wrote back, complaining of the trend:

“Last night I stayed out rather late at my club, and when I returned home I received the surprise of my married life when my wife handed me the first spanking I received since my boyhood days.

“This morning at breakfast I remonstrated with her and attempted to stick up for my rights, whereupon I was taken from my meal and given another intro-duction to my wife’s riding crop. A spanking at night is bad enough, but to start the day with one is simply indescribable.”

Ahem.

I pass the highlights
of this little article
along with no comment,
but I’d be interesting in
hearing yours.

COME
and lie with me
and love me,
Bitterness;
Touch me with your hands a little,
Kiss me, as you lean above me,
With your cold, sadistic kisses;
Wind your hair close, close around me,
Pain might dissipate this blankness;
Hurt me even, even wound me;
I have need of love that stings.
Come and lie with me and love me,
Bitterness,
So that I can laugh at things.